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Hanna Davis

Jordan university sexual harassment sparks national conversation

A 2017 JNCW study on harassment in Jordan found that 68.7 percent of respondents had experienced physical sexual harrassment and that almost nine-tenths had experienced nonverbal and verbal sexual harrassmnet [File: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

Amman, Jordan – Inappropriate messages, flirtatious comments, and physical sexual harassment – the allegations against a professor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) began as a trickle, but quickly turned into a deluge, first online, and then on national media.

#TechnoHarrasser – as the case became known – went viral at the start of June and eventually led to the physics professor’s suspension from work, and a referral to Jordan’s prosecutor general’s office for further investigation.

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